A xanthan gum domestic producer said in an April 8 complaint that an antidumping duty petitioner hadn’t proved it was actually an “interested party,” but that the Commerce Department had let it participate in an administrative review anyway (CP Kelco U.S., Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00059).
Headphone or speaker retail display shelves imported by Fasteners for Retail aren't covered by an antidumping and countervailing duty orders on prepackaged boltless steel shelving units from China, the Commerce Department said in a March 29 scope ruling. Among other things, the display shelves aren't shelving units -- they are only decks, or parts of shelves, it said.
In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. and defendant-appellee petitioners foughtback against an importer’s opening brief that argued a Commerce Department scope ruling “would overturn more than 10 years of black-letter law” (Valeo North America v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 24-1189).
The U.S. on April 5 rejected an importer’s claim that, based on the legislation governing changed circumstances reviews, the Commerce Department may not begin any new antidumping or countervailing duty investigations on a product within two years of the prior one (Wabtec Corporation v. U.S., CIT # 23-00160, -00161).
The Court of International Trade in a confidential April 8 order sustained in part and remanded in part the Commerce Department's final remand results in a suit about the 2018-19 antidumping duty review on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India. Judge Claire Kelly gave the parties until April 15 to review the opinion for confidential information, stating in a letter that she would like to issue the opinion publicly "on or shortly after" April 16. Exporter Garg Tube Export filed suit to contest Commerce's use of adverse facts available against the company after its unaffiliated input supplier failed to cooperate with the agency (see 2401220030) (Garg Tube Export v. United States, CIT # 21-00169).
The Court of International Trade on April 8 upheld CBP's decision on remand that four importers didn't evade the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hardwood plywood from China. Judge Mark Barnett said the decision will be upheld because because there's "no substantive challenge" to the remand.
The U.S. told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 5 that the Commerce Department properly countervailed the Port of Incheon program in South Korea. Filing a response to respondent Hyundai Steel Co., the government said that key Federal Circuit precedent -- AK Steel Corp. v. U.S. -- controls in this instance in that the agency wasn't required to consider Hyundai's construction costs in building the port (Hyundai Steel Co. v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 24-1100).
On April 5, a Vietnamese steel pipe exporter sought to limit, and the U.S. opposed, domestic petitioners’ attempt to consolidate three of the exporter’s cases in the Court of International Trade (SeAH Steel VINA Corp. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00256, -00257, -00258).